ABC Train
You may be able to think back to your elementary school days and remember organizing lists of words into alphabetical order. The lists would start simple with words that all had a different beginning letter. They would then get more complicated and you would have to look to the second or third letters in a word. Although you certainly wouldn’t give a list that difficult to a preschooler, you can help your child begin to understand the concept of alphabetical order with activities that are appropriate for her ability level.
Instead of using lists of words to arrange, help your child put the letters themselves in alphabetical order. A set of small magnetic letters works well for this activity (or you can simply write the letters of the alphabet on pieces of paper as long as you double or triple up on some of the letters). Help your child put all of the letters in alphabetical order side-by-side to make an ABC train. Using the alphabet song works well for helping children figure out what comes next. After she has all of the letters from A-Z in order, show her how to put in any extra letters that may have doubles or triples. For example, in a magnetic set, there are often several extra vowels and other letters that are used frequently to spell words. As she completes this activity over and over again, she will begin to realize she can put in the repeated letters as she goes. As she gets comfortable with the process, you can also begin giving her a set of letters where there are gaps in the sequence. This is much more challenging so let her go back to the entire set of letters if she gets too frustrated.
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Written by BRWI Staff on August 7, 2009
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